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Pacific Standard Time: Historic Publications Now Online

We just released a new set of books, free for your perusal, in our online Reading Room. This is a particularly gorgeous set chosen for their connection to Pacific Standard Time. We added them to an earlier group of books about Southern California artists in the 1960s and 70s.

From the Craftsmanship catalogues documenting juried shows of decorative arts in the 1950s and 60s, through the groundbreaking Art and Technology (1971), to the influential catalogue for the massive campus-wide exhibition Made in California (2001), these publications record the history of the museum, art and artmaking in California in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Guide to Architecture in Southern California, 1965, is a field guide to what were deemed the best examples “before they are destroyed by a rapidly expanding megalopolis”; it includes numerous photographs by Julius Shulman. The set also includes the catalogue for Los Four: Almaraz / de la Rocha / Luján / Romero, 1974, the first major museum show of Chicano art. LACMA created a sixteen-panel accordion-fold brochure, printed in multicolored inks. Chicanismo en el Arte, 1975, is the catalogue of a juried exhibition of thirty-one young Chicano artists representing twelve art schools and the Asco group.